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5. HqBQRRBTT] SOLE OR HEEL.

No. 555,558. I I 'Pate nted M512 3, I895.

hN DREW BJERAHAM. PHOTO-UTNILWASHINGTUN. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH HAYWARD BORRETT, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SOLE OR HEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,558, dated March 3,1896.

Application filed July 30,1891- Serial No. 401,181. (No model.) Patentedin England May 13, 1891, No. 8,220; in France July 18, 1891,11'0.214,950,2t11din Germany July 18, 1891,11'0. 63,360.

To a, whon'b it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH HAYWARD Bon- RETT, of 700 Holloway Road,London, N. England, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsRelating to the Soles and Heels of Boots and Shoes, of which thefollowing is a specification, and which have been patented in othercountries as follows: in Great Britain by Letters Patent No. 8,220,dated May 13, 1891; in France by Letters Patent No. 214,950, dated July18, 1891, and in Germany by Letters Patent No. 63,360, dated July 18,

The object of this invention is to give an improved wearing-surface tothe soles and heels of boots and shoes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an under side view of an outersole with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a crosssection on theline 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, and Fig.- 4 an under sideview, of one form of hollow stud, on an enlarged scale.

In carrying out this invention steel studs with tubular stems or shortlengths of steel tube are employed, which tubular pieces are forcedthrough the outer leather sole from the back. These tubular pieces actas a kind of hollow punch and cut their way through the sole, a smallplug of leather entering and being compressed in the tube. The lengthsof tube will be slightly longer than the thickness of the leather soleand when forced through will project slightly beyond the surface of thesole. The projecting portions are ground off by means of an emery-wheelor removed in any other convenient manner, so as to leave the studsflush with the sole.

The small plugs of leather inside the tubular pieces form an importantfeature of this invention, as, being compressed in the studs, theleather forms a hard wearing-surface, which prevents the tubes wearingaway unevenly. These tubular pieces, when not made with solid heads,will be slightly splayed out at their inner ends, and by reason of theirbeing flush with the sole externally will not collect mud and dirt, asis the case with hobnails, while they are not liable (by reason of thesolid or splayed heads on the inner side of the sole) to drop out of thesole, as wire pins or hobnails are liable to do, leaving holes in thesole for the entrance of Wet and dirt.

A is the sole. B is a solid-headed stud with a tubular stem, and O isthe plug of compressed leather.

For the heels of boots and shoes the tubular pieces will be applied tothe bottomlift of the heel.

The hollow studs or tubular pieces may be manufactured in any convenientmanner, the mode of manufacturing forming no part of the presentinvention.

What I claim is- A sole or heel for boots and shoes having awearing-surface consisting of portions of the sole or heel compressed togreater density than other portions of the sole or heel and formingplugs within metal tubes open on the outside of the sole or heel andforced through the leather from the back to form the compressed plugs,substantially as described.

JOSEPH HAYWARD BORRETT.

Witnesses:

W. K. WHITE, H. F. O. GOETZ.

